Pumping attachment



J. F. RADEY.

PUMPl-NG ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED M.AY25,1920.

1,389,783. PatentedSept. 6, 1921.

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PUMPING ATTACH-MENT- APPLICATION FILED MAY 25,. 1 920- l,389,783.PatentedSept. 6, 1921.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH F. RADEY, F CATO, WISCONSIN.

PUMPING ATTACHMENT.

:Be it known that I, JosnrH F. R-ADEY, a

citizen of the United States, and resident of j of spouts and showingcertain features of the invention associated therewith.

Cato, in the county of Manitowoc and State of Wisconsin, haveinventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Pumping Attachments; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof.

My'invention relates to new and useful improvements in pumpingattachments whereby a pump may be selectively operated by either manualor mechanical means.

In most pumps having but a single .dis-

16 charge spout, it is comparatively easy to selectively connect thepump rod with hand actuated means or with power means. When, however,the pump has a pair of outlet spouts, either one of which may be used,

20 or if thesingle spout is located at a considerable height above theground, it is com paratively diflicult under normal conditions and withstandard apparatus to selectively connect the pump rod to the handactuated 6 driving rod or to the power driven actuating rod. This isoccasioned by the fact that it isnecessary tolocate the means forconnecting the pump rod with either of its driving rods at a point abovethe uppermost discharge spout.

Consequently it is the primary object of this invention to provide asimply con- .structed selective connecting .means which can bereadily-operated at a remote point to attach either the manually drivenj or the power driven operating rod to the pump rod.

' An additional object of the invention is to provide an apparatus ofthis character 40 which may be constructed of a comparatively few numberof parts, all of which are compactly arranged.

It is-still another objectofthe invention to provide yieldablecomiecting arms for attaching the pump rod to either the manually drivenoperating rod .or the power driven operating rod irrespective of whetheror notsaid arms are alined with the arm re ceiving portions of thelatter and at the time that the element carrying said arms is shifted. I7 7 With these general objects in view the invention consists in thenovel features of construction, combination and arrangement 56 of partswhich will be hereinafter more par Specification of Letters Patent.

1 Patented Sept. 6, 1921. 1920. Serial No. 384,104.

ticularly described and claimed and shown in the accompanying drawings,wherein:

Figure l representsa side elevational view portions of a pump having twodischarge Fig. 2 is a similar view, partly in section, of a portion ofthe pumping structure lo cated above the parts illustrated in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken on the plane of theline 3 -3 ofFig. 1.

In Figs. 4: and 5 are similar views taken substantially on the planes ofthe lines 4=4 and 55 of Fig. 2.

Although this improved apparatus is preferably used-in connection withwindmills, it having been primarily designed for such purpose, it willbe seen from the drawings and from the following description that theprinciples of the invention may well be used in other relations, itbeing the primary object of the invention to provide means forselectively connecting the pump rod with a manually actuated operatingrod or with a power actuating operating rod regardless of the sourcefrom which the power is obtained. Likewise various changes may be madein the form and proportion of the different parts of the apparatuswithout departing from the principles of the invention or sacrificingany of its advantages.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the reference character 1designates a pump'stock having a pump rod 2 reciprocable therein andprovided with a lower discharge spout 3 relatively close to the ground.The stock is extended a considerable distance above the ground as shownat 4 and has a second or upper discharge spout 5 located at its upperend. The spout 3 is provided with a cut-off cock 6 so that when closedwater will be forced upwardly through the extension to the uppermostdischarge s pout 5. The pump stock 1 or the extension 4 carries abracket 7 having a handle 8 mounted thereon for manual operation.

The handle 8 is connected with a pitman 9 as is customary, the same'inthe present instance extending upwardly to a considerable height andhaving its upper end portion slidable in guides 10 carried by a frame11. The bracket 7 also has a guide 12 slidably receiving the lower endportion of the pitman 9. The guides 10 of the frame 11 form parts ofhorizontal guide plates 13 which have their opposite ends connected withupright bars 1&, these parts'together comprising the main elements ofthe frame 11. 7

Guides 15 are also carried by the plates 13 and are adapted to have thelower end portion of a power driven pumping shaft 16 slide therethrough,this shaft as hereinafter indicated being connected with a windmill orany other power producing means. Likewise the upper end of the pump rod2 is also slidable through guides 17 carried by the plates 13. Inthe'present instance the pump rod is located betweenthe pitman 9 andpumping shaft 16 and parallel, or substantially parallel to both.

The pitman 9 adjacent its upper end has a seat notch 18, and the pumpingshaft 16 adjacent its lower end has a similar notch 19, both of thesenotches being adapted to receive connecting arms 20. A connecting armcarrying'bracket 21 is secured upon the upper portion of the pump rodand has the connecting arms 20 hinged thereto as at 22, these arms beingextended in substantially opposite directions and' toward the pitman 9and pumping shaft 16 respectively. A leaf spring 23 is carried by thebracket 21 and has its opposite ends engaging the arms 20 to urge thesame in onedirection, said spring normally causing abutment shoulders24: on the said arms 20 to be engaged with similar shoulders 25 on thebracket. The bracket 21 while being carried by the pump rod 2 isslidable on a shift rod 26, the opposite ends of which are carried by acrank 27 and the arm 28 of a bell-crank 29 respectively. The

shift rod is spaced 'fromand parallel with the axis of the pump rod 2 sothat saidshift rod is moved orbitally when the bracket 21 is shifted.

The bell-crank 29 to which the lower ends of the shift rod 26 is securedis rocked upon oscillation of an. operatin sleeve 30, the same includinga crank nger 31 which moves between the furcations of the other arm 32of the bell-crank 29. Compactness of partsin this apparatus is procuredby having the bracket'21, the crank 27 and the bell crank 29 movableabout the aXis of the-pump rod 2 and the pitman 9 reciprocable withinthe rotatable sleeve 30.

As indicated most clearly in Figs. 1 and 3,

' the operating sleeve 30 is shiftable to either one of three positions,in one of which positions bothofthe arms 20 are held out of cooperationwith both of the seat notches 18 and 19, or in other words spaced fromthe pitman and pumping shaft, this location of the clifferent partsbeing depicted in the drawings.

7 In another position of the sleeve 30, one of the arms 20 is engaged inthe notch 18 and the other arm 20 is spaced from-the pumping shaft 16,while in the third position the last mentioned arm 20 is located in thenotch 19 and thefirst mentioned arm 20 is spaced from seats 39, thesleeve 30 and consequently the bracket 21 is locked against movement.

When the handle 35 is shifted from its neutral position as in Fig. 3toward thepositions indicated by the reference letters A and B, thesleeve 30 will be rotated and likewise the crank finger 31'. Theoscillation of the crank finger 31 being imparted to the bell-crank 29will move the shift rod 26 orbitally as 'hereinbefore mentioned. One

of the arms 20 will thus be engaged either 7 with the pitman 9 or thepumpingshaft 16, and if the notch'18 or the notch 19 is alined' withthis arm when the handle 35 is shifted, said arm will be receivedtherein. If, on'the other hand, the arm is not alined' with its notchwhen said handle is shifted, it will engage the pitman 9 or the pumpingshaft 16,

as the case may be, and yield against the g tension of the spring 23,the abutment shoulders 24 and 25 being then out 'of contact. But, assoon as alinement of these parts is procured, the arm will snap into itssaid notch and be retained therein to lock the pump rod to one of itsactuating members until the handle'35' is againshifted toward neutralposition. As a result of this construction the pump rod may be easilyand quickly connected with either the pitman 9 or the pumping shaft 16regardless of the height of these parts above the ground. 1

I claim: Y "1 1. In an apparatus of the class described, a reciprocableoperating device, a; power driven actuating member, a manually drivenactuating member, and means for selectively connecting either of themembers with the operating device comprising a pivoted bracket, means onthe bracket for selectively cooperatively engaging either of said memoftwo positions, a crank, a rod connecting the crank and bracket, arotatable member and a connection between the rotatable memher and crankto oscillate thelatter by rotation of the former. c

2. In an apparatus ofthe class described, I a reciprocable operatingdevice, a power driven actuating member, a manually driven actuatingmember, saidmembers each having an arm receiving portion,-and means forselectively connecting either of the members with the operating devicecomprising a. pivoted bracket, a pair of connecting arms carried by thebracket for selectively coopera tively engaging with either of said armreceiving portions When the former is swung to either one of the twopositions, a crank, a rod connecting the crank and bracket, 2, rotatablemember, and a connection between the rotatable member and crank tooscillate the latter by rotation of the former.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand atCato, in the county of Manitowoc and State of Wisconsin.

JOSEPH F. RADEY.

